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Sun November 18, 2007
(Some Renter) Scary In the foreclosure crisis of 2007, thousands of American families are losing their homes without ever missing a payment (50)
(Some Guy) Interesting To go along with the war in Iraq, foreclosed homes and high gas prices, the price of Thanksgiving dinner increased this year. Happy Holidays (10)
AP Interesting Philly Wi-Fi network hits snags, delays. Comcast, impressed with the service, puts in a takeover bid (7)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Gulf Arab heads of state, most of whose currencies are pegged to the U.S. dollar, will jointly discuss a proposal to revalue their currencies in December (16)
CNBC Interesting DreamWorks appears to be negotiating to move their studio to NBC Universal from Paramount, the New York Times reported Saturday, according to this CNBC story (10)
Boston Globe Obvious The Boston Globe discusses new ways that providers integrate ads into media. That's the Boston Globe, a leader in investigative journalism, buy a copy today (28)
(Belfast Telegraph) Obvious Wii will wii will ROCK YOU (86)

Sat November 17, 2007
USA Today Cool Maxwell House will pickup the tolls at one toll plaza in 8 US cities and distribute fare cards at one NYC subway station in each of the 5 boroughs between 7 and 9 AM November 21st. No mention of free coffee (12)
Telegraph Dumbass Conservative Christian Pastor takes on Microsoft because their policies are too inclusive and treat all people as equals. That's gay (37)
Internet News Interesting Ten Black Friday scams retailers don't want you to know (258)
Reuters Obvious Rupert Murdoch to make content on Wall Street Journal free to all visitors. Because really, what kind of loser would pay real money to access part of website? That's just stupid (55)

Fri November 16, 2007
AP Interesting Starbuck's US customer traffic down 1%. EVERYBODY DECAFFEINATE (21)
Reuters Hero Chrysler plans to close down 1,000 car dealers and eliminate the PT Cruiser (43)
Independent Obvious "The decline of the dollar, symbol of US global hegemony for the best part of a century, may have become so entrenched that some experts now fear it is irreversible" (33)
(Bloomberg) Unlikely Oil rises more than a $1 due to... *shakes Magic 8 Ball* ... OPEC claiming they "can't do anything about the price" (9)
NPR Sad Southeastern drought may drive up Christmas tree prices. "I have one word for you. Plastics" (7)
(US News) Interesting Five myths about $3 gas (326)
LA Times Followup Health Net fined $1 million for not disclosing policy of yanking coverage from sick people. Problem solved forever and for all eternity (25)
Denver Post Stupid Class action lawsuit against Crocs launched because the company acts like their shoes don't stink (7)
(Grandfather Report) Asinine Almost 100 years after America instituted the Federal Reserve, what is our end result? An 88% erosion in purchasing power (37)
Wall Street Journal Interesting Using capitalism to fund socialism: Citgo selling US assets in order to become the cash cow for Hugo Chavez's social welfare programs in Venezuela (98)
Yahoo Interesting The U.S. mortgage market downturn may cause investors to scale back lending by $2 trillion (10)
(451) Interesting Cisco to expand its Advanced Services division, possibly by acquistion. Thong song (2)
Marketwatch Scary AMD gets $622 million investment from Middle Eastern firm. No word on why Al Qaeda's Elecronic Emporium is investing in smaller, faster, more powerful microchips (13)
Lancashire Evening Post Ironic Nearly half of people dubbed Yuppies in the 1980s are now struggling financially (109)

Thu November 15, 2007
Winding Road Stupid Vorsprung Durch Scheiße: Audi unveils its latest concept in Los Angeles: A two-door droptop SUV sedan in deep turd metallic (22)
(Some Guy) Obvious Oil exec gets death threat due to... *shakes Magic 8 ball*... high gas prices (14)
C|Net Cool Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday. Ben Bova unavailable for comment but available for download (11)
(NYT blog) Followup "Spitzer's Christmas Present," otherwise known as NY state's bid to rule the world by tax schemes, pulled back. Local media decide to give Spitzer a good kicking for it, too (7)
JSOnline Cool Miller beers are 19 percent more popular than this time last year (52)
Yahoo Interesting Kraft ditching Post Cereal on news that it takes consumers 45 minutes to eat a bowl of Grape Nuts (50)
Yahoo Cool Ford and Honda lead the annual list of safest cars. Ford? (81)
BBC Obvious Oil prices remain the same on news that the "$100" labels aren’t back from the printers yet (14)
CNN Spiffy John Thain tapped to head up Merrill Lynch & Co. Well, that's very NYSE of him (6)

Wed November 14, 2007
Reuters Strange $8 billion lawsuit alleges company shipped arms to terrorist organization that then murdered those dealing with rival companies. Halliburton? Blackwater? No, Chiquita Banana (19)
Forbes Sad Burt's Bees sold to that other maker of natural personal care products, Clorox. Wait, what? (31)
CNN Stupid Hedge fund geniuses suggest that it's time for Delta and United to merge into super-awesome new Megazord Air, defeat evil customers once and for all (18)
Mercury News Interesting Foodie discussion: New Michelin Guides inadvertently leaked. Zero 3-star eateries in LA; only one 3-star in Vegas (58)
(Some Guy) Amusing 10 big-time product failures and the ads that helped seal their doom (Betamax, Crystal Pepsi, "New Coke" etc.) (45)
Reuters Sad Good: starting your own business. Bad: going bankrupt. Fark: because the government wouldn't give you your tax return (28)
Yahoo Interesting Good news: retail sales increased in October. Bad news: by only 0.2 percent (19)
UPI Interesting U.S. wholesale inflation rises 0.1 percent. EVERYBODY PANIC 0.1 PERCENT (19)

Tue November 13, 2007
Yahoo Spiffy Wall Street crash? What Wall Street crash? Dow rebounds up almost 320 today on good news from Wal-Mart and Goldman Sachs (31)
Yahoo Interesting Flush with success after knocking down Microsoft, EU investigators now looking into the Google/DoubleClick deal (9)
NYPost Spiffy IBM exec tosses his six-figure salary so he can open a Manhattan waffle cart. He just likes this job batter (26)
(Some "Reality-Based" Guy) Asinine New York takes aim at collecting world-wide sales tax. Because, after all, there is no world outside of New York (28)
(Some Mortgage Guy) Interesting Reverse Mortgages are becoming very popular. This should end well (57)
AP Interesting Realizing that their readers' lifestyle place has moved to MySpace, Marvel to put some of its older X-Men and Fantastic Four comics online today (11)
(NYT) Interesting Dilbert's creator has become that which he hates most, but without pointy hair (19)
Reuters Interesting Tiffany & Co. suit against eBay set to begin after 95% of auctions selling Tiffany brand products found to be counterfeit (13)
Valleywag Interesting Adobe CEO quits unexpectedly, freezes Firefox (48)
Daily Mail Interesting IPhone in the UK selling out faster than tuppence ale at a Spice Girls oil-wrestling match (19)
Yahoo Obvious Oddly enough, gas prices are expected to max out right around the Thanksgiving holiday (23)
SFGate Sick Yahoo defends their role in the jailing of Chinese dissident (41)
CNBC Unlikely U.S. Banks on the verge of christening $100 billion super fund that will help hide their losses by moving those assets off their books. And like that... *poof* the losses were gone (25)

Mon November 12, 2007
Canada.com Amusing Canadian dollar plunges 7 cents against USD for biggest drop since 1971. GO USA (21)
(Some Girl) Cool Masseuse becomes multimillionaire at Google. Must have rubbed somebody the right way (15)
Fox News Misc Crude oil price drops, Magic Eight Ball bangs head against wall (6)
CBS News Interesting The precious snowflakes are entering the workforce. And you think your job sucks now (74)
(Business Week) Interesting Pro and con: Are kids worth the cost? Bonus: Neither side mentions "crotchfruit" (59)
(Bloomberg) Scary Today's "company considering bankruptcy due to subprime losses" story brought to you by E*Trade (19)
Chicago Tribune Cool Google in-house masseuse retires as a multi-millionaire (10)
(Some Guy) Asinine Gay men earn 23 percent less than married men. Glass ceiling gets some new track lighting (54)
UPI Obvious A 20-year-old secretary, who says she was told she was too young for her job, has won a suit against the Eight Member Club which ironically has about 800 members (11)
Newsweek Ironic Toyota, creator of the hybrid Prius, has become the pariah of the environmental community (45)
MSNBC Cool UPS expected to handle as high as 22 million packages on its peak shipping day Dec. 19th. Your dog wants a gift card (20)
London Times Amusing The Top 10 places to have sex at work. Bad news if you work from home (31)
Yahoo Stupid Wall Street embraces for another week of suck. Hold onto your butts (13)
MSNBC Cool Progressive Insurance offers benefit of $500 if your pet is hurt or killed in a car wreck. Bonus: At no additional charge (63)
Yahoo Obvious Hershey kisses eight members of its board goodbye after poor performance (9)
Wall Street Journal Sad Flat-screen TVs are causing armoires to go extinct (32)

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